在一家妇产医院，未来的父亲在走廊上步履蹒跚，而妻子则焦急地或快乐地等待婴儿。高效而富有同情心的护士保尔斯小姐使病房运转顺畅。格蕾丝·萨顿因被谋杀而从监狱转移到监狱时，事情变得活跃起来。大多数人都认为她被杀的人应该死，护士保尔斯怜悯地允许格蕾丝的丈夫杰德与妻子有无限的时间。在病房中，妇女对母性的感受各不相同。韦斯特夫人是六个孩子的母亲，她认为婴儿是赋予女性生活意义的要素。相比之下，艳舞女郎佛罗蕾达只是想尽快摆脱双胞胎，雷顿小姐已决定对抚养孩子的意见，无意成为溺爱母亲，妇女们在辩论各种理论时，一个女人想要一个婴儿，以至于她变得痴呆，从另一个病房流连忘返。一名意大利妇女得知自己的新生儿死亡后，悄悄地抽泣
在与杰德感人的告别后，格蕾丝的健康已受到监狱条件的折磨，他被带到劳动室，当杰德焦急地等待时，弗洛雷特对她双胞胎的准养母亲精心策划的计划感到震惊。她自己生一...
Young idealist Richard Miller is selected as valedictorian for his New England high-school commencement class of 1906 and intends to inject modern anti-capitalistic ideas into his speech. His father, Nat Miller, accidentally learns of it and interrupts Richard's speech before he can make a fool of himself. The small town later celebrates the Fourth of July with customary firewo...
Barry Gilbert and "Doc" Norton, broke and hungry, enter the unoccupied Reitter country estate. Soon, servants begin to arrive to prepare to welcome home the prodigal son, John Clark Reitter, Jr., of a newspaper-publisher, who has been away for several years and whom none of the servants know by sight. Barry decides to pose as Junior. The real Reitter (Jr.), before he can reach ...
Don Phelan, the ace newsreel reporter falls in love with , Wilma Howell, the daughter of the owner of another newsreel company that is a bitter rival of the one Don Works for. The rivalry between the two companies, with cameramen nudging each other out of the way, sabotage acts by one against the other, and reporters fighting to get the 'scoop' does not bode well for the romanc...
美国南北战争前夕，南方农场塔拉庄园的千金斯嘉丽（费雯·丽 Vivien Leigh 饰）爱上了另一个农场主的儿子艾希礼（莱斯利·霍华德 Leslie Howard 饰），遭到了拒绝，为了报复，她嫁给了自己不爱的男人，艾希礼妻子梅兰妮（奥利维娅·德哈维兰 Olivia de Havilland 饰）的弟弟查尔斯。
战争期间，斯嘉丽成为寡妇，失去母亲，挑起生活的重担， 不再是当初的千金小姐；战争结束后，她又两度为人妻，嫁给了爱她多年的投机商人瑞德（克拉克·盖博 Clark Gable 饰）。
然而，纵使经历了生活的艰苦，斯嘉丽对艾希礼的感情仍然没有改变。艾希礼妻子梅兰妮的去世，给了斯嘉丽一个机会，一边是深爱自己的丈夫瑞德，一边是心心念念多年的艾希礼？斯嘉丽会给自己怎样一个不一样的明天？
